In the Name... A few years ago, Sue and I were traveling in Ireland and we stopped late one night to get some fish and chips. The town...

In the Name... A fellow asked his boss for a raise because, he said, he was doing the work of three men. The boss said he wouldn't give...

In the Name... Once upon a time there was an elephant who worked in the forests of India moving logs with his trunk. His owner took good...

In the Name... There was once a barber who became a born-again Christian and couldn’t wait to share his new-found faith. So, one Monday,...

The Blue Screen of Death I remember the first time I put on sunglasses with polarized lens. The sky changed from a diffuse featureless...

In the Name... Among the fables of Aesop is one entitled “The Hunter and the Woodsman.” A hunter was out following the tracks of a lion....

In the Name... There's a scene I recall from one of the Frankenstein movies made in the 1970's. In this movie, the creature is given...

In the Name... A church put a sign out front which read “You will pay for your sins.” But, somebody wrote below it, “If you have already...

In the Name... A Sunday School teacher asked her class if any of them could define "prayer." One little boy raised his hand and said,...

In the Name... A fiery preacher was once banging his pulpit and regaling his flock on the torments of Hell including weeping and the...

In the Name... A man went to a farm stand, and, to make sure he was getting quality produce he asked, “Excuse me, I’m buying these for my...

Sermon: PENTECOST 3, June 25th, 2017 In the Name... The late Senator Sam Ervin took pride in describing himself as just a “poor country...

In the Name... "Good morning, Mr Phelps." A lot of us may remember that as a tagline of the TV series "Mission: Impossible." The line...

In the Name… A non-religious family sent their son to a church school because it had a good reputation. One day, the boy came home and...

In the Name... I was in a store and saw a door with a sign above it which read "Fire Exit." But, on the door itself was a sign which...

In the Name... A journalist visiting Jerusalem heard about a very old rabbi who had been going, for as long as anybody could remember, to...

In the Name... There is a saying that translators are traitors. This is because language is always subject to cultural idiosyncrasies. ...

In the Name... One Sunday afternoon, a minister from Philadelphia was on his way to take evening services at a church near Lancaster,...

In the Name... A man once appeared at the pearly gates seeking admittance and St. Peter asked him if he'd ever done anything heroic. ...

In the Name... A pastor asked his elders what sort of things they would like people to say about them at their funerals. One replied,...